The Internet is awesome, no doubt, but it can be a challenge to keep track of all the information that’s flapping about these days. I’ve tried various techniques and technologies to help me manage the various streams of information that I like to keep an eye on. I thought I’d share how I go about [...]

Google have launched a handy tool for building Android Apps without requiring any programming knowledge. It’s called App Inventor and is built upon the Open Blocks platform. With it you can create mobile apps simply by dragging and dropping program ‘blocks’ in to place, similar to Lego Mindstorms. The video makes it look pretty simple. [...]

The recent release of WordPress 3.0 has prompted my to go for an overhaul of this site, making use of some of the jazzy new features in this latest version. Custom Post Types The introduction of custom post types is a feature that many WP users have been waiting for for a while, now it [...]

When I was writing a WordPress widget plugin to display information from a sub set of my posts (that’s it on the side, with the paper toys…) I noticed that the WordPress Loop doesn’t quite behave itself when widgetized in the 2.8+ style. When using the following code, inside a widget, to return posts from [...]

After the recent release of WordPress 3.0, I’ve decided to redesign my site taking in to account some of the fantastic new features it has to offer (more on that in a future post). But while I was hunting around for bits and bobs I found out about the marvellous syntax highlighter project, which allows [...]